Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton tells Channel 12 she fired the office’s director-general, Yigal Slovik, this week after about six months on the job because of a “loss of confidence” in him.
“He didn’t hurt me, but he hurt the office and staff,” Shasha-Biton tells the network.
“I took a professional, and he got a little confused along the way because education is not the army. It should be managed differently, not through orders,” she says.
Slovik was only appointed in June, when a new government was sworn in. He previously headed the military’s ground forces’ manpower division.
Rumors had swirled that Slovik’s dismissal was partly due to him not accepting Shasha-Biton’s positions on a number of issues and policies.
Shasha-Biton, a member of the right-wing New Hope party, has been particularly outspoken in her criticism of much of the government’s approach to the coronavirus.
She denies that her views on the handling of COVID-19 in the education system are related to Slovik being fired.
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